SATURDAY, MAY 31, 2008

WIZARD WORLD PHILADLEPHIA: DYNAMITE ENTERTAINMENT

PHILADELPHIA -- Dynamite Entertainment kicked off the second day of Wizard World Philadelphia programming with its first-ever convention panel on Saturday morning.

Below are highlights:

* Dynamite announced a Blackbeard comic book in association with Haxan Films, creators of The Black Witch Project. The comic will be written by Robert Napton, with Haxan's Eduardo Sanchez, Gregg Hale, and Jamie Nash.

"I was honored. They came into our offices for a meeting," said Dynamite's Nick Barrucci. "They pitched five projects and all five projects had a reason to happen, but I wanted to build the relationship slowly."

"He was a pretty trippy guy," Sanchez said of the character. "Everybody know him as a notorious priate, but most of his life is a complete mystery. We started doing research. While he could be a bad person if he chose to, there were a lot of interesting things about him that you could put a twist on the story. He never killed anybody who wasn't fighting back.

"We're portraying Blackbeard as a guy who opposing any kind of oppression at all.
not going to slack on the action side of things."

* Brian Reed
Red Sonja: "We killed her. She's dead and now I have to clean that up."